Daniel M. Gross is Professor of English and Affiliate Faculty in the Critical Theory Emphasis. His research in rhetoric runs along three tracks: writing and communication, history of the disciplines, and medical humanities. Book publications include The Cambridge History of Rhetoric, Volume 5: Modern Rhetoric after 1900, edited with Steven J. Mailloux and LuMing Mao (Cambridge University Press, 2025); Being-Moved: Rhetoric As the Art of Listening (University of California Press, 2020); Uncomfortable Situations: Emotion between Science and the Humanities (University of Chicago Press, 2017); Science and Emotions after 1945: A Transatlantic Perspective (University of Chicago Press, 2014), edited with Frank Biess; The Secret History of Emotion: From Aristotle’s Rhetoric to Modern Brain Science (University of Chicago Press, 2006). Heidegger and Rhetoric (State University of New York Press, 2005), edited with Ansgar Kemmann.

Matt joined the CWCC team in Fall 2023, after serving for seven years as Assistant Director of Writing Across the Curriculum at the University of Minnesota. He collaborates closely with faculty, graduate student instructors, teaching assistants, and departments across UCI on writing-related matters, including writing assignment design and assessment, utilizing effective practices in teaching and responding to student writing, and integrating writing into the major. He enjoys the dialogical nature of this work, which takes many forms—individual consultations, workshops, symposiums, panels, discussions, and writing retreats. His work in WAC + WID draws on experiences in writing program administration and in the classroom, where he has taught courses in literature, composition, film, media aesthetics, Liberal Studies, and Education.